President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will host next year’s G20 summit at Trump National Doral golf course in Miami, Florida.
“We will have the honor of hosting the G20 summit right here in America for the first time here in nearly 20 years,” Trump said as he signed a series of executive orders in the Oval Office Friday afternoon.
“Everybody wants it [at Doral], because it’s right next to the airport, it’s the best location,” the president said. “Beautiful everything.”
Trump insisted that he will not personally profit from it.
The president has signaled that he may skip this year’s summit, which is taking place in South Africa this November. “Maybe I’ll send somebody else because I’ve had a lot of problems with South Africa,” Trump said in July. “They have some very bad policies.”
The Trump administration has expressed concern for unproven claims of “genocide” happening in the country against white farmers. Earlier this year, the administration brought a small group of white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees as part of a relocation effort for Afrikaners, a minority in the country.
In May, he hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House, showing his counterpart a video of Black activists calling for the seizing of white farmers’ land, which Trump claimed was proof of genocide.
For years, Trump has expressed a desire to show off Miami, one of his favorite cities, to world leaders. In 2019, he said that the Florida city would be a good spot to host the G-7 summit, which the U.S. was slated to host in 2020, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Doral happens to be within Miami … it’s a wonderful place, it’s a very very successful area of Florida,” Trump said at the time during the 2019 G-7 summit in France. “It’s very importantly only five minutes from the airport, the airport’s right next door.”
The president said that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will organize the agenda for the summit, and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett will serve as point person.
“Miami is honored to host the G20 summit, marking a historic moment for both Miami and the nation,” Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said in a statement following the announcement. “It reinforces Miami’s role on the international stage when events like the G20, the America Business Forum and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, want to call Miami home.”
